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2010 Navionics US Chart
I just purchased the new 2010 Navionics CF/1XG VO1.22 All USA.
I am looking for feedback concerning this new electronic chart. So far I have had problem with it using Ray Tech Planner 6.0 on my PC. Any comment will be appreciated. |
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2010 Navionics US Chart
"Denis M" wrote in message
... I just purchased the new 2010 Navionics CF/1XG VO1.22 All USA. I am looking for feedback concerning this new electronic chart. So far I have had problem with it using Ray Tech Planner 6.0 on my PC. Any comment will be appreciated. I have come, very unhappily, to mistrust Navionics charts, at least for the Bahamas. We've not used it anywhere else yet; perhaps other areas will be better. They may well be better for inland stuff, but other users of Raymarine charts confirm my dismay. Navionics proclaims their charts updated, and correct, but there's a massive reef right where a boat came to grief (lost), and it's NOWHERE on the charts. A fellow cruiser called them in Italy or where ever it is they are in Europe and got no satisfaction. He then confronted the owner at a boat show, and was given an upgrade chip for mollification. It's no better. Further, there's no way to import BSBs or other "good" chart files to the chip. We're screwed. We're stuck with it, and the lousy charts, until we - presumably many years in the future - make a wholesale change of electronics. In desperation, we use the Cap'n, which takes the Maptech charts and the ones they sell with aplomb; I'm still wrestling with MaxSea to get charts into it, but have had, at least, some success - just not fully - as backups on the nav station computer. Case in point is right where we're anchored now, which is just a blank slate on Navionics, but very detailed in the Cap'n, which took the Explorer charts with no complaint. Caveat Emptor; if you're about to upgrade electronics, look for something with CMap, with which I was very well pleased, even in the very lowest capacity chips I had, on my RL79CRC (obsolete, now, and my c120 is now out of production, too - all the new ones are digital, but my 3-year old radar isn't, so won't talk to them, the reason I bought the C120 on eBay)... L8R Skip -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand (Richard Bach) |
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2010 Navionics US Chart
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:08:21 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote: Caveat Emptor; if you're about to upgrade electronics, look for something with CMap, with which I was very well pleased, even in the very lowest capacity chips I had, on my RL79CRC (obsolete, now, and my c120 is now out of production, too - all the new ones are digital, but my 3-year old radar isn't, so won't talk to them, the reason I bought the C120 on eBay)... Ditto that regarding CMAP. I've been using their chart chips for 5 years and are very happy with them. Our CMAP charts of the Bahamas are exact replicas of the Explorer charts which are widely regarded as the best available for that area. We have been navigating the Caribbean for the last 3 months on a single CMAP chip which has proven to be quite accurate. I still recommend running BSB charts on a laptop as backup however. |
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